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Signaling Creditworthiness in Peruvian Microfinance Markets: The Role of Information Sharing Using borrower-level data from FINCA, one of Peru’s leading microfinance institu- tions (MFIs), this paper evaluates the effect on borrowers’ access to credit of FINCA’s decision to share information on individual outstanding debt records (positive infor- mation) as well as group default records (negative information). Since all borrowers were simultaneously exposed to the same policy, the paper develops a creative iden- tification strategy that relies on the exogenous variation of the opening and closing dates of loan cycles across lending groups. A credit expansion effect is identified for some borrowers in FINCA who looked more creditworthy after their positive records were exposed, suggesting that other lenders targeted FINCA clients with good credit records. This credit expansion effect seems to have hurt FINCA through higher default rates as its better clients were skimmed off.
Oct 2012 Number of comments: 0

Microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean From the first experiments of providing tiny loans to poor women in the early 1970s, microfinance has grown to become a sophisticated industry. In Latin America and the Caribbean alone, some 600 microfinance institutions have lent around $12 billion to more than 10 million low-income clients. This platform gathers resources on microfinance in Latin America in the Caribbean, such as data, publications and programmes. Number of comments: 0

Migration for development: a bottom-up approach A handbook for practitioners and policy makers This handbook for practitioners and policy makers on Migration and Development, focuses on the role and contributions that can be brought by small scale projects to migration and development.
August 2011 Number of comments: 0

Seven Fund SEVEN (Social Equity Venture Fund) is a virtual non-profit entity run by entrepreneurs whose strategy is to markedly increase the rate of innovation and diffusion of enterprise-based solutions to poverty. It does this by targeted investment that fosters thought leadership through books, films and websites; supporting role models - whether they are entrepreneurs or innovative firms - in developing nations; and shaping a new discourse in government, the press and the academy around private-sector innovation, prosperity and progressive human values. Number of comments: 0

Centre for Global Development The Center for Global Development works to reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community to make the world a more prosperous, just, and safe place for us all. A nimble, independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit think tank, CGD combines world-class research with policy analysis and innovative communications to turn ideas into action. Number of comments: 0

Blogs :: World Bank A blog from World Bank staff on all things development, with blog posts, polls, stats, videos and photos. Number of comments: 0

Économie sociale et solidaire: notre chemin commun vers le travail décent « Économie sociale et solidaire: notre chemin commun vers le travail décent ». Document de référence pour la deuxième édition de l’Académie sur l’Économie Sociale et Solidaire, 24-28 octobre 2011, Montréal, Canada Le document rassemble une série d'articles pour aider à construire une compréhension commune du concept de solidarité de l'économie sociale (ESS), plus particulièrement en matière de gouvernance et gestion , politiques et réseaux dans et pour les organisations de l'ESS. Il inclut également des informations générales sur l'OIT et l'initiative d'économie sociale et solidaire, et des articles sur la relation entre l'ESS et l'économie informelle, l'économie verte, le développement local et les modalités de financement de l'ESS.
24 Octobre 2011 Number of comments: 0

Rural-Related Tools to stimulate employment and decent work in rural areas Descriptive leaflets on over 50 ready-to-use tools to stimulate employment and decent work in rural areas, including enterprise and employment support, international labour standards, social protection, social dialogue, and cross-cutting themes, such as youth and gender.
2011 Number of comments: 0

Revista Microfinanzas de Centroamérica y del Caribe La Revista Microfinanzas de Centroamérica y del Caribe en su Edición Número 14, la cual contiene información institucional y de alcance de las 128 instituciones de microfinanzas afiliadas a las Redes Nacionales que conforman REDCAMIF. Esta edición permite actualizar la información sistematizada de un importante sector de la industria de las microfinanzas de Centroamérica y República Dominicana.
2011 Number of comments: 0

Microinsurance Innovation Facility-Innovation Flash Boletín de Microinsurance Innovation Facility de la OIT, Junio 2011
2011 Number of comments: 0

Enfoque al desarrollo económico local en América Latina usando las políticas de post-consenso de Washington: un ejemplo de Medellín, Colombia Treinta años después de haber creado las políticas de Consenso de Washington, el nuevo milenio observó la manera como América Latina adoptó una amplia gama de políticas de desarrollo económico y social con tintes izquierdistas, donde el Estado adoptó un nuevo papel, aún a nivel local. En Colombia, la ciudad de Medellín ha encabezado el nuevo movimiento de activismo local, y los resultados iniciales de esta nueva trayectoria radical han sido positivos. Esta Nota de Antecedentes establece que el progreso de Medellín en la construcción de un ‘estado de desarrollo local’ debe ser reconocido porque promueve las empresas y la inclusión social. Sin embargo, también advierte evitar la complacencia, ya que se requieren ajustes importantes para evidenciar un progreso más rápido y sostenible con el fin de combatir la pobreza, el subdesarrollo e inequidad en Medellín. El papel nocivo del desarrollo de microempresas es un aspecto importante del paquete de políticas de Medellín que debe ser reevaluado con rapidez. Esta Nota de Antecedentes se basa en visitas de campo realizadas en Colombia en el 2010 y a comienzos del 2011, usando datos tomados de reuniones, estudios de casos de microempresas, y entrevistas de informantes claves llevadas a cabo en Medellín.
2011 Number of comments: 0

Project Design Manual A step-by-step tool to support the development of cooperatives and other forms of self-help organizations. The manual provides cooperatives and other types of self-help organizations with practical guidance to formulate project proposals that are economically, socially, politically and environmentally viable.
December 2010 Number of comments: 0

The Blue Sweater Story - Setting up Acumen Fund The Blue Sweater is the inspiring memoir by Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen Fund's founder and CEO, who has spent her life on a quest to understand global poverty and to find powerful new ways of tackling it.
2010 Number of comments: 0

Financing Local economic development in Ghana old problems, new strategies Report of an ILO conference on financing local economic development, which took place in Ghana in March 2009 Number of comments: 1

Case study India: A “Green” Value Chain Development Exercise in Jabalpur Routes Out of the Crisis – 1-3 December 2009: India National Case Study The ILO’s “Green Jobs” initiative supports a concerted effort by governments, employers, and trade unions to promote environmentally sustainable jobs and development in a climate-challenged world. It seeks to facilitate a "just transition" that reflects the environmental, economic and social pillars of sustainable development. In support of the initiative, the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, in collaboration with Sub-regional and Country Offices, has initiated demonstration programmes which aim to “contribute to identification and testing of pathways to clean development through the creation of green jobs which reconcile goals for poverty reduction with low greenhouse gas emissions.” In India the first step in the exercise has been the pilot application of a sectoral assessment methodology. The assessment of three high potential clusters, including Jabalpur dairy cluster resulted in identification of high priority interventions that support the green jobs and decent work agenda. A key aspect of the implementation of such interventions is the provision of feedback to the assessment methodology, thus contributing to its further strengthening and refining with a view to the scaling up and replication of the approach. Number of comments: 0

Case study Nepal: Kamala Irrigation Project Routes Out of the Crisis – 1-3 December 2009: Nepal National Case Study Number of comments: 0

Economic Development of Areas Industrialisation policies typically contain a series of policies, e.g. competition laws, investment climates, trade policies and technology policies. Industrialisation & Related Policies is mainly relevant for national governments. Local and regional governments have usualy a different set of government intervention at their disposal. These type of interventions are discussed in Economic Development of Areas. Local and Regional Governments should familiarise themselves with the contents of Industrialisation & Related Policies.
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Servicios de Desarrollo Empresarial en America Latina Interview sobre la relación entre DEL y SDE
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Renewable Energy for Microenterprise This guide is targeted to the many types of microfinance institutions (MFIs) and microenterprise support organizations that are interested in improving the profitability of their members’ microenterprises through renewable energy (RE) technologies. In addition, RE suppliers and technical organizations can use this guide to strengthen efforts to incorporate microfinance institutions and practices into rural electrification programs.
November 2000 Number of comments: 0

Sub-Regional Conference on Local Economic Development Sharing knowledge and the way forward Number of comments: 0

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